Africa's Basketball championship: Morocco loses to Tunisia

The Moroccan basketball team lost Tuesday the third day match to Tunisians by 80 to 76.

The other matches played in group 1 resulted in a victory of Egypt over Mozambique 86-80, and a win by Mali over Cote d'Ivoire 79-71.

After the third day matches, Tunisia is taking the lead of group 1 with 6 points, followed by Egypt (6 points), and Morocco (4 points). Then come Cote d'Ivoire (4 points), Mali (4 points) and Mozambique (3 points).

In group 2, Algeria (6 points) is still taking the lead after a victory Tuesday over the Central African Republic 79-66. It is followed by Senegal (5 points), which squeezed South Africa 69-37, and Angola (5 points), which defeated Nigeria 54-43. Nigeria is ranking 4th (5 points) and is followed by South Africa (3 points) and the Central African Republic (3 points).